Arthur Morgan Duff, 101 of Fredericksburg, TX died Monday, August 7, 2017 at Celeste Care of Fredericksburg.
A Celebration of Life, Memorial Services will be held Monday, September 11, 2017 in the chapel of Schaetter’s Funeral Home with Rev. Ann Hoch of Memorial Presbyterian Church officiating.
Interment will be at Green Acres Cemetery, Scottsdale, AZ.
Mr. Duff was born April 25, 1916 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio, son of David Herbert Morgan and Mary Charlotte Feit. Upon the death of his father in 1917 he was adopted by his maternal aunt, Anna Matilda Feit and her husband Frank Wallace Duff.
Art grew up during the Great Depression and worked at the local drug store, shined shoes in the barber shop, delivered bread for a local bakery and was a delivery boy for the Postal Telegraph Co. He was Sr. Class Vice President at Niles High School and the school head cheer leader.
Art married Harriet Elizabeth Burrows on February 2, 1938 in New Cumberland, West Virginia. They set up their household in Niles, Ohio where on March 1, 1939 their daughter Margaret Ann “Peggy” was born.
In 1942, for health reasons, they moved from Ohio to Phoenix, Arizona. Art went to work for the Valley National Bank and remained there rising to the position of Vice President in the mortgage loan department. In 1964 he and his wife moved to Southern California where he continued his banking career with Union Bank and later Wells Fargo Bank. In 1977 they returned to Arizona where he worked for W. R. Grace Construction Co., until his retirement. They remained in AZ until October 2005 when they moved to Fredericksburg, TX to be near their daughter and son-in-law. Their marriage lasted 68 years until the death of Harriet Duff.
Art was a member of the Paradise Valley, Silver Trowel Lodge #29. F & A M, Phoenix, AZ was recently honored with a pin marking 65 years of membership. He was also a member of Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J. U.S.A, Phoenix, AZ; El Zaribah Shriners, Phoenix AZ and a life member of Disabled American Veterans.
During WWII he served in the United States Navy and for his 90th birthday, his daughter and grandson surprised him with a plaque on the Honor Wall at the Nimitz Museum.
In 2016 the Hill Country Cattlewomen honored him at Father’s day for being the oldest living father in Fredericksburg. In that same year the Quilts of Valor group from Llano presented him a quilt honoring his service during WWII.
He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Peggy & Gene Munson, of Fredericksburg, a grandson and his wife, Mark R. and Renee Miller of Phoenix; two great grandchildren Jacob R. and Morgan L. Miller.
Preceding him in death were his two sets of parents, David H. Morgan & Mary C. Feit and Frank W. Duff and Anna M. Feit and his siblings Dorothy Pressell, David Feit, Margaret Jadwin, Joseph Morgan and Charles Duff.
The Family requests that in lieu of flowers that a contribution be made in memory of Arthur M. Duff to the Hill Country Memorial Hospital Foundation, P. O. Box 1339, Fredericksburg, TX 78624.
Links to his adopted parents are Anna Feit Duff 27214328 and Frank Wallace Duff 27181032 buried in Beaver Falls, Pa.
A Celebration of Life, Memorial Services will be held Monday, September 11, 2017 in the chapel of Schaetter’s Funeral Home with Rev. Ann Hoch of Memorial Presbyterian Church officiating.
Interment will be at Green Acres Cemetery, Scottsdale, AZ.
Mr. Duff was born April 25, 1916 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio, son of David Herbert Morgan and Mary Charlotte Feit. Upon the death of his father in 1917 he was adopted by his maternal aunt, Anna Matilda Feit and her husband Frank Wallace Duff.
Art grew up during the Great Depression and worked at the local drug store, shined shoes in the barber shop, delivered bread for a local bakery and was a delivery boy for the Postal Telegraph Co. He was Sr. Class Vice President at Niles High School and the school head cheer leader.
Art married Harriet Elizabeth Burrows on February 2, 1938 in New Cumberland, West Virginia. They set up their household in Niles, Ohio where on March 1, 1939 their daughter Margaret Ann “Peggy” was born.
In 1942, for health reasons, they moved from Ohio to Phoenix, Arizona. Art went to work for the Valley National Bank and remained there rising to the position of Vice President in the mortgage loan department. In 1964 he and his wife moved to Southern California where he continued his banking career with Union Bank and later Wells Fargo Bank. In 1977 they returned to Arizona where he worked for W. R. Grace Construction Co., until his retirement. They remained in AZ until October 2005 when they moved to Fredericksburg, TX to be near their daughter and son-in-law. Their marriage lasted 68 years until the death of Harriet Duff.
Art was a member of the Paradise Valley, Silver Trowel Lodge #29. F & A M, Phoenix, AZ was recently honored with a pin marking 65 years of membership. He was also a member of Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J. U.S.A, Phoenix, AZ; El Zaribah Shriners, Phoenix AZ and a life member of Disabled American Veterans.
During WWII he served in the United States Navy and for his 90th birthday, his daughter and grandson surprised him with a plaque on the Honor Wall at the Nimitz Museum.
In 2016 the Hill Country Cattlewomen honored him at Father’s day for being the oldest living father in Fredericksburg. In that same year the Quilts of Valor group from Llano presented him a quilt honoring his service during WWII.
He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Peggy & Gene Munson, of Fredericksburg, a grandson and his wife, Mark R. and Renee Miller of Phoenix; two great grandchildren Jacob R. and Morgan L. Miller.
Preceding him in death were his two sets of parents, David H. Morgan & Mary C. Feit and Frank W. Duff and Anna M. Feit and his siblings Dorothy Pressell, David Feit, Margaret Jadwin, Joseph Morgan and Charles Duff.
The Family requests that in lieu of flowers that a contribution be made in memory of Arthur M. Duff to the Hill Country Memorial Hospital Foundation, P. O. Box 1339, Fredericksburg, TX 78624.
Links to his adopted parents are Anna Feit Duff 27214328 and Frank Wallace Duff 27181032 buried in Beaver Falls, Pa.
Arthur Morgan Duff, 101 of Fredericksburg, TX died Monday, August 7, 2017 at Celeste Care of Fredericksburg.
A Celebration of Life, Memorial Services will be held Monday, September 11, 2017 in the chapel of Schaetter’s Funeral Home with Rev. Ann Hoch of Memorial Presbyterian Church officiating.
Interment will be at Green Acres Cemetery, Scottsdale, AZ.
Mr. Duff was born April 25, 1916 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio, son of David Herbert Morgan and Mary Charlotte Feit. Upon the death of his father in 1917 he was adopted by his maternal aunt, Anna Matilda Feit and her husband Frank Wallace Duff.
Art grew up during the Great Depression and worked at the local drug store, shined shoes in the barber shop, delivered bread for a local bakery and was a delivery boy for the Postal Telegraph Co. He was Sr. Class Vice President at Niles High School and the school head cheer leader.
Art married Harriet Elizabeth Burrows on February 2, 1938 in New Cumberland, West Virginia. They set up their household in Niles, Ohio where on March 1, 1939 their daughter Margaret Ann “Peggy” was born.
In 1942, for health reasons, they moved from Ohio to Phoenix, Arizona. Art went to work for the Valley National Bank and remained there rising to the position of Vice President in the mortgage loan department. In 1964 he and his wife moved to Southern California where he continued his banking career with Union Bank and later Wells Fargo Bank. In 1977 they returned to Arizona where he worked for W. R. Grace Construction Co., until his retirement. They remained in AZ until October 2005 when they moved to Fredericksburg, TX to be near their daughter and son-in-law. Their marriage lasted 68 years until the death of Harriet Duff.
Art was a member of the Paradise Valley, Silver Trowel Lodge #29. F & A M, Phoenix, AZ was recently honored with a pin marking 65 years of membership. He was also a member of Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J. U.S.A, Phoenix, AZ; El Zaribah Shriners, Phoenix AZ and a life member of Disabled American Veterans.
During WWII he served in the United States Navy and for his 90th birthday, his daughter and grandson surprised him with a plaque on the Honor Wall at the Nimitz Museum.
In 2016 the Hill Country Cattlewomen honored him at Father’s day for being the oldest living father in Fredericksburg. In that same year the Quilts of Valor group from Llano presented him a quilt honoring his service during WWII.
He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Peggy & Gene Munson, of Fredericksburg, a grandson and his wife, Mark R. and Renee Miller of Phoenix; two great grandchildren Jacob R. and Morgan L. Miller.
Preceding him in death were his two sets of parents, David H. Morgan & Mary C. Feit and Frank W. Duff and Anna M. Feit and his siblings Dorothy Pressell, David Feit, Margaret Jadwin, Joseph Morgan and Charles Duff.
The Family requests that in lieu of flowers that a contribution be made in memory of Arthur M. Duff to the Hill Country Memorial Hospital Foundation, P. O. Box 1339, Fredericksburg, TX 78624.
Links to his adopted parents are Anna Feit Duff 27214328 and Frank Wallace Duff 27181032 buried in Beaver Falls, Pa.
A Celebration of Life, Memorial Services will be held Monday, September 11, 2017 in the chapel of Schaetter’s Funeral Home with Rev. Ann Hoch of Memorial Presbyterian Church officiating.
Interment will be at Green Acres Cemetery, Scottsdale, AZ.
Mr. Duff was born April 25, 1916 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio, son of David Herbert Morgan and Mary Charlotte Feit. Upon the death of his father in 1917 he was adopted by his maternal aunt, Anna Matilda Feit and her husband Frank Wallace Duff.
Art grew up during the Great Depression and worked at the local drug store, shined shoes in the barber shop, delivered bread for a local bakery and was a delivery boy for the Postal Telegraph Co. He was Sr. Class Vice President at Niles High School and the school head cheer leader.
Art married Harriet Elizabeth Burrows on February 2, 1938 in New Cumberland, West Virginia. They set up their household in Niles, Ohio where on March 1, 1939 their daughter Margaret Ann “Peggy” was born.
In 1942, for health reasons, they moved from Ohio to Phoenix, Arizona. Art went to work for the Valley National Bank and remained there rising to the position of Vice President in the mortgage loan department. In 1964 he and his wife moved to Southern California where he continued his banking career with Union Bank and later Wells Fargo Bank. In 1977 they returned to Arizona where he worked for W. R. Grace Construction Co., until his retirement. They remained in AZ until October 2005 when they moved to Fredericksburg, TX to be near their daughter and son-in-law. Their marriage lasted 68 years until the death of Harriet Duff.
Art was a member of the Paradise Valley, Silver Trowel Lodge #29. F & A M, Phoenix, AZ was recently honored with a pin marking 65 years of membership. He was also a member of Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J. U.S.A, Phoenix, AZ; El Zaribah Shriners, Phoenix AZ and a life member of Disabled American Veterans.
During WWII he served in the United States Navy and for his 90th birthday, his daughter and grandson surprised him with a plaque on the Honor Wall at the Nimitz Museum.
In 2016 the Hill Country Cattlewomen honored him at Father’s day for being the oldest living father in Fredericksburg. In that same year the Quilts of Valor group from Llano presented him a quilt honoring his service during WWII.
He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Peggy & Gene Munson, of Fredericksburg, a grandson and his wife, Mark R. and Renee Miller of Phoenix; two great grandchildren Jacob R. and Morgan L. Miller.
Preceding him in death were his two sets of parents, David H. Morgan & Mary C. Feit and Frank W. Duff and Anna M. Feit and his siblings Dorothy Pressell, David Feit, Margaret Jadwin, Joseph Morgan and Charles Duff.
The Family requests that in lieu of flowers that a contribution be made in memory of Arthur M. Duff to the Hill Country Memorial Hospital Foundation, P. O. Box 1339, Fredericksburg, TX 78624.
Links to his adopted parents are Anna Feit Duff 27214328 and Frank Wallace Duff 27181032 buried in Beaver Falls, Pa.
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